Tennis Camp

For the past four days I have been going to Tiger Tennis Camp from 1:00-4:00. I loved it! I got to work with the coaches that I will have next year for my middle school tennis team, and a lot of my friends were there. The coaches were really nice, and I learned a lot! Today, since it was our last day, we did a doubles tournament, where you play with two people on each side. We played six original rounds, and then about three or so tie-breaker rounds. In the end, there was an individual winner, a second place team, and a third place team. Believe it or not, my team won second! I was very excited(and hot and tired.) I had a ton of fun at the camp, and I can't wait to play next year!

Blogs Galore!

This week, I really wanted to get Tyson to start a blog. I suggested to him that he start a blog in which he would keep up with B.Y.U.'s sports games. My idea worked, but I ended up having to make the blog (Tyson supervised.) Well, of course, when Justin saw that now both Tyson and I had blogs, he wanted one too. I agreeded to this and made him a blog as well. I thought that this would be the last of it, but then Justin needed help writing in his blog, and of course, I was the lucky one asked to help him. Now, none of this seemed too bad, and I was glad that they were both starting blogs, but then they decided that they needed to add more to their blogs. I had to help Justin find a background on www.thecutestblogontheblock.com, which took a while because, since he is a boy, and since Tyson was there telling him that all of the backgrounds were much too girly, he had some trouble finding one that was masculine enough for him. Then Tyson decided to use my mom's suggestion of putting a poll on his blog, where people can vote for who they think should be B.Y.U.'s MVP. Well, let's just say that it took a while for me to find out how to make a poll, and to actually get it to work. All in all, a simple suggestion turned out to work a little better than I wanted it to. But even with all that, I am glad that I was able to finally convince them to start blogs!

Oh Where, Oh Where Could it Be?

In July, I will start going to Young Womens. One of my goals this year is to complete the activities in my Faith in God booklet before I go to Young Womens so that I can earn my Faith in God award. I am having some trouble doing that because after completing my pedigree chart, I couldn't find it, I figured that I had just left it somewhere, and that it would turn up soon, so I didn't think much of it. Well, it's been about a month now, and it still hasn't turned up! As the days go by, my suspicions of either Ryan or Abigail having taken it, are continuosly growing. I sure do hope it turns up soon!

Valentines Party

This year, my mom decided to let me have a Valentines party. She suggested that I do a mystery, so I did. She got one off of the Internet, and got it all ready, the clues, the dinner, the setting, she did it all, except the invitations and the guest list. I invited Mikaela Sircable, Rachel Ramos, Hannah Stapp, Amanda Ganas, Abby Smith, and Sommer Harris (Mikaela was sick so my mom had to fill in for her.) When they got here, we played sticker tag, which was a ton of fun, (who knew trying to get stickers on people could be so tiring.) Then we got started with the mystery, we prented to be detectives, and had an important meeting. We then had dinner, during which we figured out who the culprit was. Then we solved riddles and cracked codes to find the dangerous hidden secret(my mom was amazed at how quickly we figured the codes and riddles out). We found out what it was and then celebrated by playing hide-and-go-seek in the dark, and having fried ice cream for desert(it's much better than it sounds.) Afterwords, we played giant spoons, and then took everybody home. I had a ton of fun and am very grateful to my mom for working so hard to make the party fun!

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Disastrous Delicacy

For Family Home Evening this week, I was on treat. I decided that I wanted to make peach cobbler. Well, the recipe required self rising flour, and we didn't have any. My mom told me to just put in a teaspoon baking powder and half a teaspoon of salt. She meant to simply add that to the flour, but I thought that she meant for me to put that in instead of the flour. So that is exactly what I did, put sugar, milk, peaches, and one tsp. baking powder and half a teaspoon salt. When it came out of the oven, boy did it look peculiar. It was just a bunch of peaches floating in some odd looking liquid. When my mom saw it she asked me to tell her what I had done. She sure got a surprise when I told her that I hadn't added the flour. Oh well, it didn't taste to bad, and now I know that all cobbler must have FLOUR!
By: Emily Cluff

Frenship Middle School

I am now in the sixth grade, and boy is it different! I go to Frenship Middle School. I love all of my teachers and classes and am getting used to switching classes, but I still feel like it's a lot different from elementary! My favorite classes are Art, GT, Honors Math, and Reading. My favorite teacheres are Mr. Messerschmidt, Mrs.Schoenrock, Mrs.Robertson, and Mrs.Bills. The one thing that I don't like about middle school, is that I have to leave for school a half hour earlier than I used too, just to get there in time. Well, I still think middle school is great, and I'm glad I get to go to it!


By: Emily Cluff